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Antifragility of Islamic Finance: The Risk-Sharing Alternative explains how risk-sharing, as defined under Islamic finance, makes financial systems antifragile. It highlights the benefits of 100% equity-based finance over debt-based finance.
The recent financial crisis has given rise to discussions on a new approach to risk management called antifragility. This concept specifies conditions under which systems become resilient to shocks caused by Black Swans-highly unpredictable outlier events that have a major negative (or positive) consequence when they occur, with their occurrence only explained retrospectively. Per this concept, the long-term survivability of any system centers exclusively on its antifragile nature, that is, its ability to absorb and even benefit from Black Swan-type shocks. This book aims to investigate risk-sharing Islamic finance as an antifragile system.
As a by-product of the Great Recession, the problems of debt-based financial systems are starting to be highlighted by industry and by academia. The antifragile solution for avoiding future financial crises is primarily centered on moving the existing financial system towards more equity and less debt, thereby introducing skin-in-the-game into financial transactions. This book introduces a model of a 100% equity-based financial system, centered on risk sharing, as a possible alternative to the contemporary debt-based, conventional financial system, which is based on risk transfer and on risk shifting. In essence, this book attempts to provide a practical model for an antifragile financial system by evaluating the characteristics of Islamic finance under the criteria of antifragility.
Info autore
Umar Rafi specializes in the field of information technology in the financial services domain. He is currently working as a computer scientist in Silicon Valley. He has a BS in mathematics from the United States Air Force Academy, an MS in computer science from Wichita State University, and a PhD in Islamic finance from the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF).
Abbas Mirakhor joined INCEIF in 2010 as Distinguished Scholar and the first holder of INCEIF¿s chair in Islamic finance. His research interests include conventional and Islamic economics and finance. Prior to joining INCEIF, he spent 24 years with the International Monetary Fund, serving as executive director and dean of the executive board. He is a graduate of Kansas State University, where he received his Bachelor, Master and PhD degrees in Economics.
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Antifragility of Islamic Finance: The Risk-Sharing Alternative explains how risk-sharing, as defined under Islamic finance, makes financial systems antifragile. It highlights the benefits of 100% equity-based finance over debt-based finance.
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"Ten years after the 2007 global financial crisis and 20 years after the Asian financial crisis, you would have thought that mainstream economics would have been discredited for its failure to predict and offer credible solutions for radical uncertainty and fragile financial systems. Umar Rafi and Abbas Mirakhor's book Antifragility of Islamic Finance: The Risk-Sharing Alternative offers a rare and revolutionary position that the equity and risk-sharing nature of Islamic finance is more robust, resilient, and antifragile than conventional debt finance, which has become concentrated, fragile, and unmanageable. The authors succinctly map the original work of Mandelbrot, Nassim Taleb, and Kahneman into the basic philosophy of Islamic finance. I commend this book as a fundamental building block for the foundations of Islamic finance as mainstream finance." -Tan Sri Andrew Sheng, distinguished fellow at the Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong, chief advisor to the China Banking Regulatory Commission, and one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, 2013.
